Find the name of the current config file

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Published on 2010-04-11T14:22:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 14:23 UTC
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Is there a way to find the name (and path) of the current application's config file from inside a class library?

E.g. in a web app this would be web.config, in a windows app or service this would be myapp.exe.config.

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